The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why
John Kay, "The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why "
English | ISBN: 030028019X | 2025 | 448 pages | EPUB | 1331 KB
English | ISBN: 030028019X | 2025 | 448 pages | EPUB | 1331 KB
A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business—what it is for and how it works
Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.
But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers
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